Thread and tape holder.



Patented Sept. M, 1909.

/NVENTOH George/7( BY f TTOHNEYS G. W. WEISS.

THREAD AND TAPE HOLDER.

APPLICATION HLED 350.51908.

, iiitentionally carry away a partly-used spool lyn, in the county oliKings and State of New .the figures,' and in 'Which- GEGRGE Vif. WEISS',GF Ria-V lllf, ll?, EL.

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Application iiled Becember 5, 19,08. Serial No. ttl.

fo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that GEORGE W. lll/vines, a citi-zen of .the United States,and a resident of the city otN ew York, borough 'of Brook- Yorlghaveinvented a new and improved. Thread and Tape Holder, of which thefollowin.,T is a full, clear, and exact description.

In the ordinary form of sewing machines, the table or top is made nolarger than is. .considered necessary for the supporting of thearticlesor garments to be sew'ed, and this isparticularly true of thosesewingmachines einployedin'large factories Where a great many machinesare mounted upon a single table or to and operated by power. lt istherefore highly desirable that the machine top or table be eiicnniheredto the minimum amount by attachments, tint-ores or devices, whichalthough serving to aid tl operator in seine respects, yet prevent andrestrict the proper movement of the material. in tactories there is alsoa great deal et time wasted in removing one spool from the sewingniachine spindle andinserting, another when it is desired to sew with aditlierent ltin'd or color of thread, and there are also a great manypartly used spools of thread lost, inisplaced or stolen hy theoperators. The ohject ot' my invention is 'to overcome these ohjectionsand diicultics .by providing an attachment which may be secured to thesewing machine table or top, or any other table or factory table space,and which will serve for the support notonly of a plurality of spools ofthread but also for a plurality of rolls oi tape, ribbon, seam-binding,or other similar or analogous material, which it is desired lo sew tollic article or garment loeiiig manufactured, and these spools and rollsare locked against displacement, so that an employee cannot accidentallymisplace or oi." roll. The invention involves various tea tures of theattachment, which will he described more fully hereinatterandparticularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is. to be had to the accompany? cation, in Which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both' Figure 1is a perspective View of one vform of device constructed in accordancewith my invention; and Fig.' 2 is side elevation ot aV lloindino,y lace,or a .y

hold-er.

I'nthe drawings there are illustrated two separate orins which myinvention may assume, but inboth of these forms the lower portion ofthe. standard andthe support tol the rolls of tape, are substantiallythe saine. The lower portion of thev standard is formed of a rod lOhaving its lower end rigidly secured to a base plate 11 and held uprightin respect to 'thesame hy a collar or boss 12. Longitudinally movableupon the rod or nonrotatable in respect thereto, l' provide supports fora plurality oi rolls or spools of material which it is desired to sewonto the garment hein@ manufactured. This material may he oft anycharacter whatsoever dependent upon the nature the. and the use to whichit is to he pnt.. mate rial may he tape, rihlion, seein hiiidirg, sltir;

` nel manly sold or used troni roll i `iol. the terni as usedhereinaiter in specication, ll wish to cover any of these materials.

Each support is in the form oit or disk 13 having; an upwardly-extendingoen- Ati'allydisp1osed collar 'lll through. which the rod 10 forming thelower section of the standard extends. The lower plate rests directlyupon the boss or collar 12 and each plate above' the bottoni one restsupon the collar 14 of the plate holder. The plates are held againstrotation in respect to the standard in any suitable manner, as, forinstance, the standard may have a groove or 'hert 15 eiztcnding`longitudinally thereof,

and eacli'collar 1st may have a` radially-disposed pin or stud 16extending into said groove or hert. The collar ot each plat-e is deviceshowing a modified termici 'threadof slightly greater height than thewidth of n the material forming; the roll and is of slightly smallerdiameter than the aperture through the spool or mbe about which the rollof material is formed. A separate roll of material may rest upon es chof the plates,

so that the operator may use from any oney desired and the use from oneroll cannot loe interfered with by tlie'presence of other rolls on thedevice, as the supports do not rotate, and, therefore, the rotating otone roll will not rotate any other. The rod 10 forming the lower sectionof the standard extends to a slightly greater .elevation than the upperend of the upperl collar 14 and ico suitable mechanism is iovided forvpositively locking the supporting plates against removal save by aforeman or other authorized person. A simple form of lockingmechanism'is illustrated and involves merely a padlock 17, having thecurved bar 18 thereo extending through an opening 19 in the standard.AThe upper latel cannot be removed from the stan ard without first re--moving the padlock.

of thread, said means being in the form of plate subdivided into aplurality ofplate sections 23, eachv of which carries a spindle 2aextending u wardly therefrom an' substantially para lel to the standard.All ofv plate sections 23 may be formed intethe ' gral lwith thecollar21, and each may, if desired, be slightly dished or concave toward thecenter.vv rli`he spindles 24'are secured to the supportingplatesections, so as to be rigid t erewith and to avoidthe necessity forany support or brace for the spindles at their upper ends except in casethe upper ends of the spindles are bent laterally out of their normalpositions.

Above the collar 21 and its spool supports, 1 .provide a second collar25 having a plate subdivided into a plurality of outwardlyextending arms-or branches 26 corresponding in number and plate sections 23. has anopening 27 'therein concentric with the corresponding spindle and of adiameter somewhat greater than said spindle. The collar 25 and its armsor branches are so disposed that the spindles extend up to or bevond theopenings, so as to leave an annu lar space between the outer surface ofeach spindle and the surrounding wall of the. corresponding opening. Thearms or branches serve not only as guides for the thread which passesfrom the several spools on thespindles up through the openings27, butthey also serve to prevent the removal of the spools by the lateralbending of the upper ends of the spindles. Above the collar '25, the rod20 is provided with a suitable locking device, as the shackle'28 of apadlock 29, so that the collar cannot be raised to remove any spool fromits spindle. The rod extends a considerable distance above the collar 25and at its upper'end has l'a thread-guiding plate 30 rigidly securedthereto. The p ate 30 is provided with small apertures 31 disposeddirectly above ing 31, so that by pulling ont-he en '34, adapted forentry through an openinor radial distribution to the Each arm orbranch'26' ca -resi the corresponding s' indle. The thread from eachspool extends up through the corresponding opening in a branch 26 andthence up through .the correspondinfr o end ofp the thread, it is causedto unroll without binding and without rotating the spool. By 'f Idishing the supporting plate sections 23,

the thread is prevented from binding beneath the spool should a few ofthe lower coils slip oil' the lower end.

When it is desired to replace empty spools i by full ones, the operatormay unloosen the i set screw 22 and take the entire upper portion of thestandard, together with the' spindles, to the stock-room where theemployee n charge of the supplies may unlock the padlock 29 and raisethe collar 25. This from its spindle and replaced by a new. one

und the operator has no opportunity for stealing a spool of threpdunless he takes the entire upper portion of the standard, in which.event he will be immediately detect'- ed. The thread-guiding plate 30is'rigid with the rod 20 and serves to limit the upward movement of thecollar 25,v so that the latterlcannot be removed and misplaced even-whilc the padlock is detached.

For insuring the proper alincment of the openings 27 with the spindles24;, the collar 25 may bekeyed to the rod, or 1 may make the-collarfreely rotatable on the rod and provide a second or supporting collar82. This collar -may be rigidly secured to the standard by a set screw33 and may have an outwardly, and upwardly extending lug in one ofy thearmsor branches 26. rlhe cdllar 32, willthus serve tol limit thedownward' movement of the collar 25, support the same, and prevent itsrotation when said last-mentioned'collar is in.. its lowered oroperative position.' f

In place of the specific form of thread' holder illustrated in Fig. l, Imay employ the thread holder shown in Fig. 2. This holder involves anupper standard section in the form of a rod 20EL similar to the rod 20and adapted to, rest with its lower end in engagement with. theA upperend of the lowerv rod 10. The thread holder shown'in Fig. 2 isreversible and adapted to support sixteen separate spools. The rod hassecured thereto intermediate its ends, a spoolsupporting plate 35 bymeans of a collar 36, and adjacent each end of the rod 20a ai'e twoplates 37, each of which supports a plural-ity vot' standards 38substantially parallel to said permits any one of the spools to beremoved 'ment by menus plats 1%( imm \.'e11lied from 111mb@ lum u Yewlim' mov@- 111:15' bc scoured to lha lower rml in any Mutable mmm J, am,im' lnl'nxwlfy by n slmve lwmm lll@ lower vmls nl! 'Llumf splmlle mul lm' ul, but il also `supporl "-lml by l ilu-Qual slip all' x rom the 1 m'lue j. all ln' one l w lle. uppm rofl, und a pluaff , and moans zfarrimlby smid w sul@ plaies fo:- Suppmng @all by moans; 0f which mill `\l maynu Scmwl lo a gm'- l wl" mail, comlcllumg :.5 lmse :xml :m f

slmulzml, :l [fiale carried lglfllss ilemlmgpsmllel theeto forsupporting a plm centric' tluexrfewlth and spaced apart te' (zelve nplurality f rolls 'of amnsen'bnra rial, and a plurality of spindlescarni-e the secmld-xnenlloned rod and substan' 7 y of spools of ilu-end.

5. A. device 0f fhe Class describedj eem prisng s standard, including ahas@ and un upfglxt, said upright including nwo venida-Al rodslnnllnement with each other and de aelxabl' seem-ed tosether, nplurality of plates supported by che lower red and concentc there-wllland spaced apart t@ (zelve a plurality of rolls of transient nmte'fal, aplumlty of spindles esried by the secondmenioned rod and. substantiallypsfallel 'lxeete fox' supporting :L plnmllf of spools ef ilnread9locking means carried by the lmae?.` rnd foi' preventing the nwval ofsaid rolls,l and means carried by tlle upper 20 md for preventing the'removal of che spools from Said spindles.

6, A devlce of the class described., comprising :i basee a standardsupported by the base, plates removably GERGE W. WEISS.'

Cham W. FAIRBANK,

JOHN l?. DAVIS.

supported on thev standard, between which a bmding or tapev sindstandard, and means substmltlallyv

